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What is Microsoft Copilot?

ByLaurel Papworth

What is MS copilot chat? How about 365 Copilot? What are Copilot Studio agents? Tutorial.

What is Copilot inside Microsoft 365, Bing, Studio etc. The three main Copilots from Microsoft are: Copilot Chat (free inside Office/365), Copilot for Sharepoint (uses your internal documentation, has a subscription fee) and Copilot Studio (agents that run inside your organisations Sharepoint, OneDrive etc). There are more, around 22 but these 3 give a good overview. [Video Summary]

What is Copilot inside Microsoft Suite?

Transcript of Microsoft Copilot lecture

[00:00:00.06]
Hi there. My name’s Laurel Papworth and I teach workshops on Microsoft Copilot and artificial
intelligence at universities, corporates, and government. I thought that today we would have a look at
what Microsoft Copilot inside 365 Studio Bing means to business and government.
[00:00:29.28]
So the term Copilot is used by Microsoft in 22 different instances. They’ve used it since 2019. It’s a
generic and descriptive term. It just means an assistant that does a bit more, like has integrations. So
an AI assistant is the original ChatGPT. You ask it a question and it doesn’t ask a question back. It
just gives you an answer and you leave it at that. Also Siri, Google, autocomplete functions, spelling
AIs, those sort of things are assistants. Copilot is used by Salesforce and IBM and Oracle and Google
Duet. So Copilot are used by lots of different companies to really mean the integration of AI so that
it’s more useful. As an example, there are out of the 22 different uses of Microsoft Copilot, and there’s
Copilot Designer and for images, and there’s Copilot for There’s Dynamics 365 Copilot, there’s the
Power BI one. I can’t remember, there’s lots of them. The 3 that I like to focus on are Copilot Chat,
which can sit inside the Microsoft Office home screen. Home screen. Pretty sure it’s free at the
moment.
[00:01:52.27]
Always check when my videos come out. Things have changed in the last week. But Copilot Chat is
just ChatGPT integration or GPT integration with SearchGPT functionality. So it has the web_browsing
plugin plus a bit more. You see it on the left-hand side. You go in there, you just ask questions, you’re
good. And if you have both Microsoft 365 Copilot and also Copilot Chat, then you’ll see there’s a
button at the top which says web and work currently. I don’t think that’ll last much longer, but it’s
there. Now the second one, which is Microsoft 365 Copilot, and that’s the one that comes inside
Microsoft Excel. So in class, for instance, we do pivot tables, but you can ask it to analyse data and
create dashboards. We have Microsoft Word, so instead of having to take text from Word, put it into
ChatGPT, have it edit it for you, then copy it back again. Now it’s built within Word itself. You can
access it in the top right-hand corner or the button above your document. There’s lots of other uses,
for instance, Pages and Canvas, but I really wanna just focus on the fact that the, you can open up
Teams and have it, the Copilot read create transcripts, things like that. Go into your OneDrive, create
PowerPoint presentations, yada yada yada.
[00:03:27.19]
So you can see the difference. I think ChatGPT sits over there on its own. It’s an AI assistant. Now
that it’s moved inside the Microsoft suite, it’s a Copilot. The third one is Copilot Studio.
[00:03:41.03]
Basically custom GPTs, little baby apps. Um, and Copilot Studio, I think they have a free thousand-
seater at the moment called the Copilot Viral something, Copilot Studio Viral. Anyway, I can take all
the compliance and regulations for my industry, put them into a SharePoint folder or connect into the
backend systems, and then create a little app so people who need to know regulations and
compliance can ask in plain English and get the responses. Just a reminder, GPT, the P stands for
pre-trained. So it’s like Encyclopaedia Britannica, the regulations and compliant document built inside
are a year out of date unless you’re using a custom GPT or RAG or something like that.
[00:04:32.09]
They’re the three main ones. I think the future, which is going to be AI agents and agentic workflows
where it does the work for you, is coming. It’s not here yet, so we’ll have to stay with the term AI
Copilot. When did it come out? 2017, I think.
[00:04:51.05]
So probably 10 years, and then we’ll be purely into AI agents. We won’t have to ask how to do
something. We’ll just say, create me a website, sign me up for a new bank account, get me a, um, a
business number, something like that. In my courses, I go through Microsoft Copilot and pass on the
tips and structured prompting and things that I see, what’s improving, what needs to improve. When
are we gonna get custom instructions and base prompts and system prompts inside the main
Microsoft 365 Copilot without having to use Copilot Studio, that kind of thing.
[00:05:34.09]
But anyway, if you’re interested, come along to the courses. Otherwise, in the meantime, I’ll see you in
the next video and don’t And forget to stay human.

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